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Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
14
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202214$100k100%
FY20211$13k0%
FY20202$106kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$117kHuman Services$55kHealth$16kYouth Development$10kHousing & Shelter$8kArts & Culture$5kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc$114,00023%
Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads$10,00010%
Nami - Virginia$10,00011%
YWCA Richmond$10,00010%
Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$5,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$4,00010%
OAR of Richmond Inc$2,50010%
Legal Information Network for Cancer$1,00010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVirginia Poverty Law Center Inc: $114,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNami - Virginia: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYWCA Richmond: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAR of Richmond Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Information Network for Cancer: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation

How much does Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation give?
Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (53%), Human Services (25%), Health (7%).
Who are Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc ($114k), Young Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ($10k), Nami - Virginia ($10k).
Does Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation based?
Gayle and Rusty Boleman Foundation is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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